Sunday, August 3, 2014

Day 98.

Thursdays are ice skating lessons for both Dart and Colt now. This is the best photo I could get of the two of them while on a hot chocolate break. Don't know why Dart is hiding his face, he did really well for his first lesson. He passed the first level!!!! Way to go mate!




In the afternoon, we did painting with the girls. It is a great way to get Taffy to do her sight words with letter stamps. Gretel copied her as well.




This week I have seen great progress from Colt. He wrote a made up story from a picture of a demented animal. On another day, he pulled out his math book and began working all by himself! I have moved him up from the yr 3 level book to the yr 4 one, and he is coping well so far. I'm sure we;ll have some gaps to fill on some math skills, and we'll do extra work on those when we come across them, I've also put the boys onto the Khanacadamy website and they are doing some work there.

I have decided to cancel Clever Dragons for Colt and Always Icecream for Taffy as they aren't getting much out of it right now. Taffy was doing well on Reading Eggs, so I might search out a deal for that one.

Day 96.



We did drama games today and played charades. The kids really love this subject! :)





They played an un-prompted game of red light, green light.


Then they built a cubby house and played with the animals.

Day 95.


Today ended up being a very short school day as our eldest daughter and granddaughter received word that they had a new home! So there was much excitement in our home and lots of preparation for the next two days of hard work! We went for a walk around Manning Lake and found a huge hill which the kids spent ages rolling down. They all needed to be washed when we went home as they got all muddy, but, oh, what fun!